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Description: | An incomplete, badly worn and corroded cast copper alloy Headstud brooch, with enamelled decoration (length: 39.2mm; width at wings: 19.8mm; thickness: approximately 16mm; weight: 11.58g). The short wings are corroded at the ends, but there does not seem to be any evidence that they were decorated. At the top of the brooch between the wings, there is another corroded stump which may indicate a loop, characteristic of many Headstud brooch types. At the top of the brooch, there is a corroded diamond-shaped stud, which does not seem to be decorated. From below the stud down to the foot of the brooch, there is a lozenge and triangle pattern with red enamel surviving in the outer triangular cells, and white enamel in the central lozenges. There is no evidence that the foot was moulded and remains as a stump with a small area of possible red enamel? The cased hinge mechanism is still present at the back of the brooch with a tiny fragment of the copper alloy pin remaining. The axis bar seems to be made of copper alloy, but there is some iron corrosion in a gap from where the pin extends. The back of the brooch is undecorated and a small part of the catch plate remains. Overall, the brooch is badly worn and corroded and is in a bad condition, with a dark green patina. A similar example is illustrated in Hattatt?s ?Ancient and Romano-British Brooches?, 1982, page 78, ref nos 36 & 37, found in Owmby, Lincolnshire and Ipswich, Suffolk respectively. They have both been dated to the 2nd century AD. Additionally, other examples are illustrated in Hattatt?s ?Iron Age & Roman Brooches?, 1985, pages 102-3, particularly ref no 421, which was found in Northamptonshire. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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